Raleigh, NC and Burbank, CA
– September 27, 2005 – Buena Vista Games, Inc. (BVG), the interactive
entertainment arm of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), and Epic Games,
world-class developers of cutting-edge video games and pioneer of the
award-winning Unreal® Engine, today announced an agreement to license Unreal
Engine 3 for multiple next-generation BVG projects. The first game under the
agreement is based on the popular “Turok†franchise, and will be developed by
BVG’s new Propaganda Games studio in Vancouver, British Columbia.
“We
have ambitious goals for the future and a strategy to enhance Buena Vista Games’
position as a major force in interactive entertainment. BVG’s intellectual
properties, combined with Epic’s leadership in underlying technology, ensures
the best game content for consumers,†said Michael Ryder, vice president of
worldwide production, Buena Vista Games.
“Licensing Unreal Engine 3 is a
strategic move to provide cost-effective and timely delivery of new content,
allowing our development teams to leverage the enormous capabilities of emerging
next-generation systems,†he concluded.
Mark Rein, vice president and
co-founder of Epic Games said, “BVG has some awesome IP to work with and we feel
privileged to contribute to its success. It’s great to be working with the
Propaganda Games team, an amazingly talented group of people, and with a
management team that appreciates the importance of providing its teams with the
best tools and technology to help them deliver. We have no doubt that BVG will
be one of the big success stories of the next generation.â€
About Buena
Vista Games
Buena Vista Games, Inc. (BVG) is the interactive
entertainment arm of The Walt Disney Company. BVG publishes, markets and
distributes a broad portfolio of multi-platform video games and interactive
entertainment worldwide. The company also licenses properties and works
directly with third-party interactive game publishers to bring products for all
ages to market. For more information, please log on to www.buenavistagames.com.
About Unreal
Engine 3
The award-winning Unreal Engine is known for cutting-edge
graphics and a best-of-breed toolset. Unreal Engine 3 is expected to maintain
those features while adding massive world support, multi-processor support,
next-generation console optimizations, and one of the most mature tool pipelines
in the industry. Unreal Engine 3’s new toolset is designed specifically to
accelerate developers' productivity for ultra-complex, next-generation content.
Additional information on Unreal Engine can be obtained at www.unrealtechnology.com.
About Epic
Games
Epic Games Inc., based in Raleigh, NC and established in 1991, is
a developer of cutting-edge computer and video games. The company is best known
as the creator of hit PC 3D action games Unreal and Unreal
Tournament, both award-winning blockbuster hits having each sold more than
one million copies. Epic is also responsible for the Unreal Engine, which is the
underlying technology for a wide range of games including, 2002 Console Game of
the Year winner, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell  from Ubi Soft; PC Gamer’s
2000 Game of the Year, Deus Ex from Ion Storm/Eidos; America's Army:
Special Forces, from the United States Army, and Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone (PC) from Electronic Arts. Additional information can be
obtained through Epic's Web site at www.epicgames.com.
